Instead of finishing the 2020/21 season with a whimper, we beat Burnley and Sheffield United at home, West Ham don't win their final game, and we're in Europe.
Ancelotti's happy, Moshiri is still spending, we have a future problem with PSR but just hire competent finance directors who can remember to add the stadium costs to the paper work.
Brands is allowed to do his job.
We probably make a few mistakes in the transfer market, but we're not bringing in Dele Alli or £30m strikers that are shit.
We settle into a nice rhythm of regular European football, top half mediocrity, and every time the club release a video of BMD we watch it and get excited, rather than ignore it because we doubt we'll even finish it.
We weren't a million miles away from Ancelotti leaving us at a similar level to where we'd kill to be right now. And I don't believe hiring him necessitated the complete and utter u-turn that saw us bring in Benitez, spend nothing on players, and decimate the backroom staff. All that before the Ukraine situation, don't forget.
The mistake wasn't going for Ancelotti, it was replacing him with Benitez.
I get why we did and that the opportunity felt too good to turn down, but he was never going to be Everton manager for more than a few years. And we were never going to be able to financially support where he wanted to be.
We had Moyes in the bag - contract written up - the night before Ancelotti signed with us. Say what you like about a backwards step, negative footy…I guarantee we wouldn’t be fighting relegation with multiple points deductions, if we’d appointed him.
That was our sliding doors moment. It might not have resulted in a Champions League trophy but there’d have been more chance of that than finding the club where we do today.
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